Rhombopora

Rhombopora is an extinct genus of bryozoans. It existed from the Ordovician to Permian period.

Rhombopora

Дарья Могилевцева · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhomboporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 195 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 509 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 509 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 28 of 509 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 292 of 509 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 186 of 509 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 509 occurrences457–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–422 Mya — about 2 occurrences422–415 Mya — about 1 occurrence415–408 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences394–387 Mya — about 4 occurrences387–380 Mya — about 13 occurrences380–373 Mya — about 2 occurrences373–366 Mya — about 4 occurrences366–359 Mya — about 3 occurrences359–352 Mya — about 7 occurrences352–345 Mya — about 16 occurrences345–338 Mya — about 31 occurrences338–331 Mya — about 35 occurrences331–324 Mya — about 15 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 18 occurrences318–311 Mya — about 24 occurrences311–304 Mya — about 128 occurrences304–297 Mya — about 27 occurrences297–290 Mya — about 106 occurrences290–283 Mya — about 14 occurrences283–276 Mya — about 7 occurrences276–269 Mya — about 19 occurrences269–262 Mya — about 20 occurrences262–255 Mya — about 7 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 3 occurrences449.9 Mya254.14 Mya457 Mya248 Mya

509 occurrences of Rhombopora on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

509 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

130 formations

Wreford — 39.69°N, 96.64°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.51°WWreford — 39.47°N, 96.41°WWreford — 37.24°N, 96.61°WWreford — 39.33°N, 96.53°WWreford — 38.70°N, 96.50°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.75°WWreford — 38.22°N, 96.43°WWreford — 38.09°N, 96.39°WWreford — 39.48°N, 96.07°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.57°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.43°WWreford — 37.81°N, 96.54°WWreford — 38.04°N, 96.42°WWreford — 38.97°N, 96.86°WWreford — 38.14°N, 96.59°WWreford — 38.66°N, 96.27°WWreford — 37.00°N, 96.00°WWreford — 38.36°N, 96.75°WWreford — 38.13°N, 96.54°WWreford — 37.31°N, 96.72°WWreford — 38.87°N, 96.22°WWreford — 37.62°N, 96.56°WWreford — 38.15°N, 96.56°WWreford — 39.03°N, 96.80°WWreford — 39.84°N, 96.47°WWreford — 38.87°N, 96.13°WWreford — 38.40°N, 96.53°WWreford — 38.18°N, 96.47°WWreford — 38.41°N, 96.56°WWreford — 38.27°N, 96.38°WWreford — 38.60°N, 96.51°WWreford — 39.87°N, 96.24°WWreford — 39.37°N, 96.52°WWinchell — 31.50°N, 98.58°WWinchell — 33.03°N, 98.07°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WCopacabana — 17.81°S, 66.21°WCopacabana — 19.12°S, 64.70°WCopacabana — 15.89°S, 68.91°WCopacabana — 16.32°S, 68.67°WCopacabana — 16.30°S, 68.49°WCherokee Shale — 37.36°N, 94.82°WCherokee Shale — 37.30°N, 94.95°WCherokee Shale — 37.24°N, 94.99°WCherokee Shale — 37.58°N, 94.64°WCherokee Shale — 37.11°N, 94.82°WCherokee Shale — 37.24°N, 94.80°WCherokee Shale — 37.07°N, 95.13°WCherokee Shale — 37.65°N, 94.71°WCherokee Shale — 37.00°N, 95.17°WCopacabana — 13.54°S, 72.88°WDennis — 41.33°N, 94.01°WDennis — 41.40°N, 94.38°WDennis — 40.40°N, 93.58°WDennis — 37.70°N, 95.19°WDennis — 38.44°N, 95.13°WDennis — 37.33°N, 95.44°WDennis — 36.68°N, 95.85°WSan Emiliano — 42.93°N, 5.97°WSan Emiliano — 42.95°N, 5.65°WSan Emiliano — 42.93°N, 5.53°WSan Emiliano — 42.95°N, 5.63°WPawnee — 40.61°N, 90.03°WPawnee — 40.60°N, 92.72°WPawnee — 37.79°N, 94.79°WPawnee — 37.20°N, 95.20°WPawnee — 37.10°N, 95.28°WPawnee — 36.76°N, 95.54°WPawnee — 36.69°N, 95.51°WParadise — 31.93°N, 109.22°WParadise — 31.93°N, 100.22°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WPottawatomie — 39.05°N, 94.67°WFort Scott Limestone — 37.84°N, 94.71°WFort Scott Limestone — 38.98°N, 93.57°WFort Scott Limestone — 37.61°N, 94.75°WFort Scott Limestone — 37.05°N, 95.15°WFort Scott Limestone — 37.05°N, 95.19°WSwope — 41.33°N, 94.01°WSwope — 43.26°N, 93.63°WSwope — 41.23°N, 93.93°WSwope — 40.08°N, 93.62°WSwope — 39.76°N, 93.80°WSwope — 38.35°N, 94.69°WIola — 43.26°N, 93.63°WIola — 41.41°N, 94.16°WIola — 39.11°N, 94.68°WIola — 37.68°N, 95.50°WIola — 37.42°N, 95.68°WIola — 37.96°N, 95.16°WMoscow — 42.71°N, 78.94°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WKazan — 57.50°N, 49.00°EKazan — 57.47°N, 49.08°EKazan — 66.05°N, 43.48°EKazan — 57.42°N, 48.90°EKazan — 57.67°N, 49.16°EKazan — 63.10°N, 51.15°EWyandotte — 38.63°N, 94.69°WWyandotte — 39.11°N, 94.81°WWann — 36.57°N, 95.98°WWann — 36.76°N, 96.01°WWann — 36.53°N, 95.98°WWann — 36.92°N, 95.81°WWann — 36.92°N, 95.90°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WSurrett Canyon — 44.25°N, 114.08°WSurrett Canyon — 44.25°N, 113.80°WSurrett Canyon — 44.38°N, 113.87°WSurrett Canyon — 44.37°N, 113.82°WSurrett Canyon — 44.22°N, 113.50°WValdeteja — 42.92°N, 5.40°WValdeteja — 42.93°N, 5.97°WHertha — 39.80°N, 93.55°WHertha — 39.76°N, 93.80°WHertha — 38.12°N, 94.85°WHertha — 37.97°N, 94.91°WStanton — 41.01°N, 96.23°WStanton — 41.29°N, 95.09°WStanton — 37.68°N, 95.64°WStanton — 37.52°N, 95.68°W

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The named rock units Rhombopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 106 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhombopora and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Rhombopora and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,082 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 456 sites for Rhombopora, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

115 references

Each of the 509 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 103 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Rhombopora

Credit
Дарья Могилевцева
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1872